1.43 total games: 14 doubles, 14 triples, 14 quads2. Each clan member can only participate in 20 games per clan war3. Wars are to be played in 2 sets:1st set only home games from higher seeded clan2nd set only home games from lower seeded clan4.The 43rd game will be chosen by lower seeded clan and is to be sent with 2nd set to speed things up!5.Each map can only be used twice per clan per clan war but can only be used once per game type (i.e. once for triples and once for quads)6.There will be no freestyle, speed, manual deployments, beta maps, or nuclear spoils games allowed

Seeding would be done by each clan and then combined together.Seed will remain the same for the whole tournament.(If lower seed clan wins over higher he will not take higher clans seed)All seeds are to be sent to shaneback.

For each clan war, the higher seeded clan will setup a thread to run that particular match.When asking for privileges, just stay that this clan war is part of Newcomers Cup.

In each clan challenge thread. A list of players participating for each clan should be kept up along with a running tally of how many games each player has played in. If someone feels a player has violated the number of games they are allowed to participate in, please bring it to my attention. If they are found in violation, the opposing team will get to pick any games from the last batch played equal to the number of games the went over the limit to restart without that player participating.

Eyestone wrote:A lot of new clans in this one, but as I remember Grim Reapers are quite old. They played in our division in Clan League season 2 so they must have been around for at least 1 1/2 years.

Since June 2009 (I'm not crazy enough to look it up, I was a member for a while ). In the other thread in the general clan forum, benga said you didn't have to be a new clan, he was having trouble getting to 8 clans, which is what he wanted. My guess is the Reapers joined up then WG (who was on the fence) decided to participate, so there ended up being 9.

Benga sent me an invite, along with some other clans, both established and new. It first the though of being lumped in with "new" clans was a bit insulting, however, a lot of these new clans are quite talenlted, and I think we will have some tough competition.The entry to WG into this challenge has just sweetened the pot, as they are a basically a top 20 clan with a couple new members and a new name, where as Im sure the other clans in this challenge fall below the top 20 mark. Its unfortunate that WG and OSA are to meet in the play-in round, as they are probably top of the top 3 clans in this challenge.

jrh_cardinal wrote:Do you have the seedings posted anywhere? Seems odd to me that OSA and WG are the two lowest seeded clans, I would probably rate both in the top half of the clans participating

Send an invite to inital 8 clans, but only response from 4.3 autommatically joined, 4th wasn't sure, so I sent some more invites. I was in a bit of a hurry to start cause wanted it finished before summer and some clans waited to see if they get in CCup2.

As we somehow got 8, thought it's all good to go, but thenGeese joined in, so felt it's our responsibility to go in play in round as I was hosting to whole thing.

I will wait for couple of more days, cause as it seems there is more interest. It is mostly for new clans, but also for lower ranked who can then help get newer clans get organized and give them some input and experience.

jrh_cardinal wrote:Do you have the seedings posted anywhere? Seems odd to me that OSA and WG are the two lowest seeded clans, I would probably rate both in the top half of the clans participating

Completely agree. I'd put OSA and WG at 1 and 2 actually, closely followed by the Reapers, then the Pack. (I follow all clan wars and have a pretty good feeling about these things). If it's on halt anyway, you might want to wait until tomorrow when Chuck's power rankings are posted, then add in the new people at the bottom (special exception being made for the Geese who should take L4Ds spot on the rankings).